Upgrade from KXStudio 14.04

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Upgrade from KXStudio 14.04

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Hi guys,

I plan to upgrade from KXStudio 14.04. as many of music apps (ardour, traktion, reaper native) are crashing regularly. Can this be a reason or should they also word with 14.04?

I wonder what's the best system now.

1. Waiting for the new KXStudio 18.04 iso
2. Installing KDE Neon + the KX repositories on top. How much work is it to get everything running compared to an installation from an ISO image?
3. Same as 2 but using AVLinux ISO instead
4. Any other options you can recommend?

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Re: Upgrade from KXStudio 14.04

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from my experiemnce:
if you are using foreign software on wine in your workflow — i'd suggest 16.04.
on 18.04, things that worked flawlessly in 14.04 and 16.04, stopped working for me (e.g. NI FM8, Novation V-Station).
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Re: Upgrade from KXStudio 14.04

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Meanwhile I upgraded to Debian Stretch.

Reaper native now works perfectly.
Ardour still crashes sometimes, but this is most often due to some plugins (especially Calf) or rarely due to Ardour itself (e.g. when editing Midi data or clicking too much). Some crashes could be reproduced by the Ardour devs and will hopefully be gone in Ardour 6.x). I don´t use wine, Linux offers enough plugins and I don´t want to make myself dependent on Windows plugins.
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Re: Upgrade from KXStudio 14.04

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I'm thinking about the same thing (before giving up and going back to Windows..... :p ) , Wine run programs were not working properly, etc., so 16.04 would be the good one?
PS: while uninstalling Wine I lost some wav files which I can recover with things like Foremost, will an upgrade make those deleted files inaccessible?
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